LaGrangewx Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Mad river must've been the sweet spot but I believe it. It's probably at least 20-1 fluff and killington did change there report 3" in 24hours 6" in last 48. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 can Lake Champlain make Lake Effect Snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Wondering how cold it will be this weekend. I never get the crazy radiational cooling since I'm up high. My all time record low since I bought the house in 1989 is -18F. Point and click gives me -12F. Hard to believe it could be raining 48 hours later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 can Lake Champlain make Lake Effect Snow? Sometimes. There was an all-day lake effect dusting in Burlington this year. Just snowed lightly all day off the warm lake- pretty unusual for Burlington and westerly winds. It's usually more confined to south of Burlington towards charlotte Vergennes with NNW winds and enough fetch over the lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmorninglight Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Nice day at Killington today. it did look like about 4-5" of new snow on the mountain. Snow showers off and on all day but really just a dusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 can Lake Champlain make Lake Effect Snow?It can, but usually it happens with a longer fetch across the lake. I haven't looked at a radar shot at all so I don't know what direction the wind was from. It could have been coming off Ontario too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrangewx Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 If mrg squeezed out .75" liquid 25-1 ratio would be right around 18" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Event totals: 5.1” Snow/0.18” L.E. Snow accumulated to 0.2” during the day today, and boy did the bottom drop out in terms of temperature. The snow is certainly being preserved for now. Details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.2 inches New Liquid: 0.01 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 20.0 Snow Density: 5.0% H2O Temperature: 6.4 F Sky: Light Snow (1 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 3.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grambo Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 This link (a study from 2000) provides some examples of Lake Champlain as a snow making/enhancing mechanism. From my understanding, true lake effect snow from Champlain results in a band over far southern Chittenden County into and through Addison County. I don't think there are other wind directions that can produce true lake effect other than NNW or N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 The radar today seemed like there was lake effect from Champlain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 The radar today seemed like there was lake effect from Champlain Didn't look. But there was a day earlier this winter, one of the coldest, where it just snowed in Burlington proper all day on a pretty light westerly wind. The lake was still in the 40's if I recall. A really light snow, the cloud just sorta hovered over the town. Wasn't snowing down by the waterfront nearly as much (maybe 1/2" total) but up by the Hospital/UVM it was over 2" when done. It just sorta sat there all day- a bit eerie look outside. Low level stuff. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 This link (a study from 2000) provides some examples of Lake Champlain as a snow making/enhancing mechanism. From my understanding, true lake effect snow from Champlain results in a band over far southern Chittenden County into and through Addison County. I don't think there are other wind directions that can produce true lake effect other than NNW or N. It reminds me of this event I was in Tahoe for: https://ams.confex.com/ams/WAF-NWP-MESO/techprogram/paper_22957.htm That one seemed to really surprise the locals. When the right conditions occur, lake effect may produce big time in unusual areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I saved a loop awhile back from a streamer that seemed to get a little extra enhancement over Lake Winni. The lake doesn't have enough of a trajectory to produce any organized bands itself, but a little enhancement wouldn't totally surprise me. I've heard of Alton and Wolfeboro squeezing out some flakes out of NW flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 5.9 Brisk. They put the most obnoxious "high efficiency" furnace in my house. I swear the thing must only heat 2 gallons of water at a time. THUMPS on for 2 minutes, off for 3, on for 2, off for 3. I'm used to twin commercial 180k BTU boilers that ran like 5 times per day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 0.4"/0.02" from brief squalls today. 5F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 -3f here. Finest confectionare sugar snow at the house. Maybe 2" otg. Squeaky. I've seen that before, where we get a few inches of dust away from the mtn and there 12-18" of pure blower at elevation. From my decidedly unscientific observations over the years, the chaimplain induced snow is really light, blower, as my people say. I'd bet the ratios are much higher than 25:1. More like 40:1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 There were some snow showers off the lake tonight but they didn't amount to anything here. Enjoy what is there through early next week before we are screwed with another cutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 brrr, Down to 2.8°F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteradiator Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I need all the nne folks,(and im one of you) to support my new topic together we can will this one just like peyton manning did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Next week storms reminds me of two events. (I'll work on digging them out). One I know of was in 2010 that saw the 0z 850mb line hover right along I-87. Brough about 12" of snow to Mansfield with like 2.5" of water or something. Over in the ADK it had like 24-30" of snow. The other was in March 2011 or there about. Similar situation. My gut says that the ADK is just high enough to see really heavy snow from about 3500ft to 5k. While VT and points east sit a little too low. But WTF to do I know. That said, there is a special place in hell for a rain storm following -20C air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 -2.1F First neggy of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 If mrg squeezed out .75" liquid 25-1 ratio would be right around 18" Photos I saw looked like classic 30-40:1 ratio stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 SLK at -21F so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 -8.6f here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Next week storms reminds me of two events. (I'll work on digging them out). One I know of was in 2010 that saw the 0z 850mb line hover right along I-87. Brough about 12" of snow to Mansfield with like 2.5" of water or something. Over in the ADK it had like 24-30" of snow. The other was in March 2011 or there about. Similar situation. My gut says that the ADK is just high enough to see really heavy snow from about 3500ft to 5k. While VT and points east sit a little too low. But WTF to do I know. That said, there is a special place in hell for a rain storm following -20C air. I remember this too. I left my house in the Hrv where it was snowing hard, went east 10-15 miles to heavy rain the whole way up on 91/89, cut back west where it was heavy snow in the greens. We did well. I'd sign for that right now. Can't deal with rain. No sir. Not now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 -3.5°F here this am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Warming up fast. Up to zero already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 The car thermo hit -9° on the way in but was at -2° in the parking lot here in Montpelier. Regarding next week's event, I'm not signing up for a 2010 redux. Around here we stayed rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Event totals: 5.4” Snow/0.21” L.E. This round of observations marks the end of this event, so final totals are above. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.3 inches New Liquid: 0.03 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 10.0 Snow Density: 10.0% H2O Temperature: -5.1 F Sky: Mostly Clear Snow at the stake: 3.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 -.6 for the low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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